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*[https://archive.org/details/explorerinairser00binguoft/page/n9 ''An Explorer in the Air Service''] by Hiram Bingham, formerly Lieutenant-Colonel, Air Service, USA 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924030744688 ''Aerial Observation; the Airplane Observer, the Balloon Observer, and the Army Corps Pilot''] by Harold E Porter ("Holworthy Hall") formerly Captain Air Service, United States Army. 1921 Archive.org
:More about Balloonists: ''The Balloonatics'' by Alan Morris 1970; ''Memoirs of an old Balloonatic'' by Goderic Hodges 1972; ''Looking back sixty years. Memoirs ... Three years' service in Ieper, Ypres, Salient in balloons of the Royal Flying Corps'' by Bernard Oliver 1975 (Details<ref>[https://suitcaseofmemoriessite.wordpress.com/part-one-the-oliver-and-hawkes-families-of-kent-england/uncle-bernard/ "Uncle Bernard and WW1 kite balloons"] ''Suitcase of memories''.</ref>). All available at the British Library UIN: BLL01002554345, UIN: BLL01001700022 and UIN: BLL01002704754. For a further short account by Oliver:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=eFJ-AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA73 "Flight Sergeant Bernard Oliver"] pages 73-82 ''Voices in Flight: Conversations with Air Veterans of the Great War'' by Anna Malinovska and Mauriel Joslyn 2006. Google Books Limited View.
*[https://archive.org/details/warbirdsdiaryofu00unse/page/n9 ''War Birds : Diary of an Unknown Aviator''] Illustrated by Clayton Knight. 1926 Archive.org. The author was Elliott White Springs who edited a short diary by "Unknown Aviator" John MacGavock Grider, and wrote the rest of the content.<ref>Dan_San_Abbott. [http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/showthread.php?t=948 War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator] ''The Aerodrome Forum'' 20 July 2002. Retrieved 27 May 2019.</ref> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_White_Springs Elliott White Springs] Wikipedia. They were both part of a group of Americans who trained in Britain, and joined the Royal Flying Corps.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527721/page/n195 Page 174] ''A Soldier’s Diary Of The Great War'' with an Introduction by Henry Williamson 1929. Published anonymously, but by Douglas H. Bell. The author transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Also see [[Western Front#Infantry and others|Infantry and others]], above.
